HETAUDA, July 14: A human rights activist has been abducted from Jitpur Ratopul of Bara.
Iswor Acharya, a teacher in local school and member of Human Rights and Peace Society (HURPES), was abducted in the evening at around 6 p.m. on Tuesday, according to his family source.
The abductors took Acharya under control on the way while he was carrying cash amount to distribute salary to his colleagues and demanded ransom worth Rs. one million, said Acharya’s brother-in-law Rajan Mainali.
The abductors robbed Rs. 460,000 from him and threatened to murder if demanded ransom was not given, said Mainali.
AKANSHYA SHAH
KATHMANDU, July 14: After eight months of circumstantial investigations, the Nepal Army (NA) has given a clean chit to Major Niranjan Basnet, who was sent back from a UN peacekeeping mission in Chad last December for his alleged involvement in human rights violation in the Maina Sunar case.
The Army Court Of Inquiry has concluded that Basnet is “innocent” and that he was returned by the UN “against all international norms and regulations.”
It has been learnt that a decision to this effect was endorsed by the Defense Ministry recently. NA had sent a letter to the ministry two months back defending Niranjan and requesting that his case be withdrawn immediately.
NA has defended Basnet on the basis of the Military Act 1959 and the then Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Control and Punishment) Ordinance 2002 (TADA).